Can the USA afford to try such a stunt now, given that the USA supply chain is in shambles and that the USA now has two enemies with nuclear weapons with an extremely fast delivery and a global south that has almost enough of their bullshit. Really, if the USA continues to behave in this fashion, they might find themselves on their own completely with no more cheap goods and valuable resources to keep themselves alive. Not to mention the Europeans are bound to abandon them if they cut and run from Ukraine like Afghanistan. Just because the EU is lead by sycophants doesn’t mean they people there are going to be happy to be cut off from much of their resources that they once can get before the USA decided to screw things up and the Middle East has started to get real sick of being told what to do they this relaxers from the EU that seem to completely believe that they can order other nations around like they are still in the colonial age. If Biden Ends up being responsible for two big scandals, things are not going to favor the USA much at all in the coming future and if for some reason the USA ends up destroying themselves, they might end up being stuffed into concentration camps themselves if they are unlucky
Looks like the construction of the Chinese Internment camps has been sped up
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The thing with Kishore is that he is a Singaporean so he is not a neutral party, if you ask me Singapore is just a piece of the Anglosphere on the Malacca straight, that doesn't have a strong man like Lee Kuan Yew anymore to keep westerner capital in check. So Kishore and other Singaporean diplomats have all the reason to keep the Anglo sphere happy. Because the Anglo sphere gave them their money and they can take back their money. That is why they always speak in double tongue. Or like Kishore likes to do in an "balance speak" first tongue lash China 2 times so he can tongue lash the US once.This is the problem with what Mahbubani is saying.
We have to understand what he is saying before we can comment on the glaring fault.
ASEAN is sitting on the fence, because they would like the United States to return to being the old United States of the past, who put their money onto those trade deals, like TPP.
The United States actively engaging with ASEAN is a perfect counter balance to China.
Note, that is the difference between ASEAN and the United States.
For ASEAN, China, is China.
For the United States, China is China! China, China, Chyna!
So that is a natural and expected position or goal of ASEAN, keep the Americans engaged in the region in a constructive way, and that would be a counterbalance to China.
What is wrong with this plan or strategy is too obvious.
It is not necessarily a specific thing, just think about it in terms of risk.
Suppose that NATO is on the losing side of that current war. Would the Americans go home? They not overly interested in ASEAN now, why would anyone expect them to be more interested in ASEAN if that war does not turn out well? Remember, Uncle Vlad has not lost a war yet.
Then suppose, President Trump makes a comeback!!! Haha! Haha! Hehehe! That probably is a 50/50 chance. Just thinking about that is too funny!
There could be other unexpected events. Suppose the Chinese announce that they will have their own DUVi and EUV up and running soon. Make that declaration at the same time of both being ready. There will be some major butt hurt in the region if that news breaks. Side with the Americans working with them and this is what we get? Chinese appearance of DUVi and EUV will be black swan events.
The Chinese like to gamble.
The Chinese listen to ASEAN. Think about the risks. Then say, "Okay, that is acceptable to us, we play."
Then ... and then ... the Chinese will support Russia all the way, and work on the DUV and EUV.
The Chinese just are not easy to deal with. It was not even their proposal.
Heh!
Don't get me wrong i will still listen to what Kishore has to say but it will always be through a lens of him being someone who has a western capital leash on his neck.
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Looks like the construction of the Chinese Internment camps has been sped up
Did America get couped by the Onion or something?
"Russian tactics are deadly for Ukrainian troops. With daily artillery shelling, short sorties, they keep the Ukrainian troops on their toes, forcing them to constantly fight, to suffer maximum losses" - Former head of Czech Intelligence Andor Šándor.
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More Chinese oil and gas deposits for China's energy security. This, along with the new Xinjiang oil fields, shale oil, and the long term energy deals with Russia, Iran, and the Gulf States. China is setting up an energy supply chain that will be nigh impossible to blockade from maritime choke points.
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True, it’s why I’ve always maintained that in the event of an Anglo instigated conflict, that the territories of the Five Eyes are forfeit.
…not to mention another trove in forming the basis for the petroyuan, or at least, away from the petrodollar.
and it couldn’t have come at a better time because it’s evident the US seeks to default on its debt by pushing for war so it won’t have to pay be its debt to China along with stealing the reserves of Russia, which would effectively kill the dollar anyhow.
Luckily for China, US itself resists most attempts to invest in it, while China does not.
"debt" is not going to be very useful. You can't buy F-22s and missiles with confiscated Chinese debt, the debt is literally an IOU which is indefintely postponed except in terms of interest payments. You can't buy more weapons just because you used to have an IOU and now you don't, if you weren't paying the IOU to begin with.
On the other hand, confiscated American hard assets in Asia, ranging from semiconductor tools, factories to land development projects and intangible IP, can directly be pushed into helping China's war effort.
That's a very revealing read on American interventionist intentions regarding Taiwan back in the waning days of WWII. I don't know if most of you are familiar with this book provided on that Twitter link since it provides American perspectives, intentions for Taiwan which was never truly noble but as always about hardcore geopolitics along with American prominence at the expense of Chinese sovereignity and dignity.
America was plotting behind the scenes even during ww2.
Initially, US companies and regime greatly supported nazi Germany. German nazis openly praised and used US as a reference for their own politics. However, as it became clear to America that the nazis were not militarily nor economically sustainable, the genocide of nazis against what Americans view as whites, increased aggression from Germany's ally Japan, America did a full 180 and started supporting the Allies.
Yet, as soon as the war was over, they already planned how to defraud the rest of the allies and replace the defeated attempt to create a nazi world order with their own nationalist American order.
America did this by pardoning nazist war criminals in order to buy out loyalty amount the defeated nazis, integrating their structures into its own. In these plans, they also began to revive nazist claims in order to bring about their vision for a world order, such as Japan's claims against China as well as Germany's plan to create ethnonationalist states in East Europe under the thumb of the Reich.
US was no true ally to neither China nor the Soviet Union in ww2. US soldiers that fought alongside the rest of the allies should be honored for their contribution, but many among their own leaders were only in it not to defeat fascism, but to replace the German-Japanese order with an American order that embraces the same values of white supremacy, genocide and evil.